Mississippi State ahead of LSU near half with KJ Costello at QB and Mike Leach at helm.

Had to chuckle at the LSU cheerleaders holding up “make noise” signs while wearing masks.

Fresno State and San Jose State would be at a disadvantage compared to others I would guess due to practice restrictions.

....back to the topic. Mountain west will begin football, and a week ahead of PAC-10. MAC to play also. That would leave only 3 FBS schools refraining from football this fall.

pac-12 has many things to iron out - especially while “there is nothing to prevent them from playing” (Governors’ words) some coaches have noted that they have been unable to practice due to restrictions and many players have gone home. Restrictions have not been equal across the respective areas.

Don’t know how recent this was but receiving a Rhodes scholarship is quite impressive.

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2020/8/28/aggie-evo-the-road-to-the-rhodes-tiger-garcia.aspx

Georgia Southern vs Campbell (down the road in Buies Creek, NC) was a very entertaining game. Campbell has restarted football after about a 40 year hiatus. They resumed in the Pioneer League and are now in the big south conference. Georgia Southern (now FBS after several 1AA titles) had something like 30 players (7 starters) out. No disclosure of discipline or Covid issues. Campbell lost by 1 point after going for the win with a 2point conversion. Kicker had missed an extra point and close field goal. Their QB reminded me of Barrier with combination of pass/run skills.

I think the schools/conferences currently playing (with stated desire to do so by players) have triggered a change in the attitude of the hold-out leagues by showing it can be done. Sure there may be some hiccups, but all in all it is a net positive for players/schools/students/bands and alums.

Personally I think it is either play this fall or bag it till next fall. Most leagues will have played and it would be weird playing on a “temporal island” not to mention that spring is just weird to be playing football. It’s possible that FCS might go in spring given more unanimity in no-play decision this fall.

Central Arkansas woke up at end of game to beat Austin Peay. Both teams looked very rough most of game. UAB then beat Central Arkansas pretty handily the next Thursday night. UAB has a running back that is a beast. They play Miami tonight.

Central Arkansas has about 8 games scheduled this fall. So they just pretty much went OOC to get games. I think Austin Peay is playing Pitt soon. Anyway glad at least some are getting to play. Also saw SF Austin play UTEP. UTEP not quite as awful as usual and beat SFA. No. Arizona had beaten UTEP last year. Saw Houston Baptist play north Texas. HBU has run and gun fun to watch offense. So some FCS teams are playing.

didn’t know that. I would agree with your premonitions that Lance will leave early, but I think he won’t come out this year. Who knows - everything is sort of upside down now.

it is safer now for the UNC football players in that that courses are all distance and and so will not be mingling with classmates. Players are tested weekly at UNC (or more frequently) from a newscast I watched yesterday. Will be interesting to see how this plays out. In the general student population, partying seems to be the issue - at Norte Dame the recent outbreak is associated with that and most that tested positive were male seniors (my wife said “no surprise there”)I don’t think the postponement/cancellation of football will have an extreme impact on those who are going to school primary for a degree. For those whose whole life and hopes lie with football (like last-chance U types) it will likely be psychologically devastating. I suspect some will drop out and go home to not so good environments.

I think rolling over a year of eligibility for everyone would have really effected programs for the next several years. People tend to focus on the seniors getting another year, but it’s everyone. How can you recruit next season’s freshman class, when you have a full freshman class in house? There are only so many slots available.

Exactly right. Are you implying that decision has been made, i.e., not to grant another year of eligibility or are you assuming a spring season avoids the issue?

“It seems the debate is not really about whether we think COVID will spread among college football teams (it will), but whether that is a serious problem or not and whether risk assessment should be a personal or institutional responsibility.“

You not the nail on the head. Risk and liability and where liability accrues is a big issue. More legal risk than “safety” risk in my opinion. Kind of ironic when we are talking about football that is not exactly a “safe” game to start with.

Idaho would have a hard time getting excited as of late in any case with their last 2 seasons even after “dropping down”.

Lot of house projects including installing a recirculating hot water return loop so we don’t have to wait 1.5 minutes for hot water to get to our master bath, car maintenance/repair and playing a lot of trombone (learned garage band to play up to 8 parts so have my own trombone choir). Some bike riding although I won’t got out in this terrible heat humidity. My wife does but I’m fine drinking coffee and reading paper instead. Several camping trips on our travel trailer.

Looks like MVC looking for lead by ACC Big12 and SEC to make final decision. If any conference goes it would be SEC due to the importance and culture of the region. Big12 probably the other end.

Good news for MVC. Looks like we may be able to watch a little college football this fall. I will have to adopt a MVC school if Big Sky does not go. Football in spring just sounds to weird to me. Don’t know that conditions will be any different then unless a vaccine is out.

I just don’t see how things are going to be different in the spring. I think either go This fall or just wait until next fall.

The commissioner did a plenary introduction but no details on fate of season.

I did not realize until today that Ed McCaffrey was the new UNC head coach. I think that’s a good hire for them. He was very, very eloquent in the interview. I thought most all head coaches handled themselves well. I got to thinking- if I had a son being recruited to any of these programs I would feel good about most (in terms of head coach). There is one I would definitely not feel good about (no names but he coaches at one of the “brawl of the wild“ schools - he just drips with arrogance and at times was sort of a jerk to the interviewer. He or someone else across from him was just holding a phone and the view was bouncing all over the place - needed anti-nausea medicine time watch. Beau Baldwin was a bit disconcerting as he keep looking down at his lap and I assumed he was constantly checking his phone. Not a good look - other coaches at least tried to look engaged. Also found out that Wyoming QB transferred to Idaho State. Montana State had picked up a transfer from NC State earlier. Don’t know what to think about this transfer portal thing. Most of these guys (especially these two) are not going to get a sniff at the pros. I don’t think the NC State transfer will even start at Montana State.

My favorite quote so far (Barnum from PSU) when suggested that he had a good sense of humor. “If you didn’t have a sense of humor growing up in the Barnum household you got your A$$ kicked”.

N.C. Central used to be D2 and only moved up to the MEAC a couple years ago. And of course we remember Bethune-Cookman in the D2 playoffs back in 1977.